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Today's topics:

AI backlash turns toward violence - A reported arson attempt targeting OpenAI’s HQ and Sam Altman’s home spotlights rising AI-related extremism, and the risk of conflating peaceful activism with violent fringe.

US vs China model value gap - A polemical essay claims US frontier AI pricing power is fading as progress plateaus, while Chinese models like Qwen 3.7 Max gain credibility on benchmarks, usage signals, and cost per useful work.

AI bubble risks in public markets - With major IPO plans and AI-driven market concentration, analysts warn of dotcom-like fragility—especially if datacenter buildouts, power, and chip supply don’t match demand assumptions.

Washington pushes AI profit sharing - Sam Altman’s meeting with Bernie Sanders underscores a new policy fight: public equity stakes, public wealth funds, and stricter accountability for AI’s labor, environmental, and national-security impacts.

LLMs as practical QA testers - One developer argues LLMs can act like a QA engineer: reading recent commits, then running targeted “manual-style” checks that catch regressions traditional tests miss, improving release confidence.

AI coding ROI: big vs small - An essay contrasts AI coding economics: in large firms, token and agent bills can balloon without clear productivity gains, while bootstrapped founders can see outsized ROI by using model discipline.

AI-native OS and agent control - vibeOS pitches an agent-driven, AI-native computing experience where an assistant can assemble apps and UI on the fly—raising big questions about trust, privacy, and local containment.

New grad engineering in AI era - IEEE Spectrum says AI is now a baseline tool for new engineers; durable advantage comes from fundamentals, system design, rigorous review, and communication that AI can’t reliably replace.

-Essay Claims US AI Premium Is Fading as Qwen 3.7 Max Undercuts Silicon Valley Pricing
-LLMs as Automated QA Agents Could Raise Software Release Quality
-AI Boom Fueled by IPO Hype, Surging Spend, and Datacentre Constraints
-IEEE Offers Seven Career Tips for New Engineers in the AI Era
-vibeOS Pitches an AI-Native OS Controlled by Claude Code
-Altman, Sanders and Trump Signal Growing Support for Public Stake in AI
-Why AI Coding ROI Is Higher for Bootstrapped